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How additive manufacturing allows products to absorb variety in use: Empirical evidence from the defensive industry (2020)
Journal Article

The normative assumption holds that a product’s structural and functional elements are fixed pre-production to support manufacturing efficiency. Firms servitizing are faced with delivering resources for customers in context and absorbing contextual v... Read More about How additive manufacturing allows products to absorb variety in use: Empirical evidence from the defensive industry.

Blockchain for good? (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The blockchain innovation appears to represent viable catalysts for achieving global sustainable development targets. Projects and initiatives seeking to extend the reach of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) seem... Read More about Blockchain for good?.

Selling digital services abroad: How do extrinsic attributes influence foreign consumers’ purchase intentions? (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors This article investigates, through the country-of-origin effect and value-in-use lenses, how the implementation of digital services creates opportunities for cultural industries to expand internationally. We argue that intrinsic at... Read More about Selling digital services abroad: How do extrinsic attributes influence foreign consumers’ purchase intentions?.

Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System Developers in an International Bank (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. System developers quickly acquire knowledge of the benefits and limitations of system development approaches and this knowledge enables them to adopt or adapt methodologies according to the scope and scale of projects... Read More about Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System Developers in an International Bank.

Automotive enterprise transformation: Build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry? (2013)
Journal Article

© IIE, INCOSE. The global financial crisis has significantly impacted the automotive industry. The crisis has reduced the supply of credit to industry, exposed process inefficiencies, and reduced credit to consumers, which has reduced sales. Firms ar... Read More about Automotive enterprise transformation: Build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry?.

Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualisation of the firm's offering from a service-dominant logic (S-DLogic) perspective. The case of Rolls-Royce is presented as an avenue through which to explore an alternative view of the firm's... Read More about Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce.

Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration (2012)
Journal Article

This briefing looks at the case of Cambridge University Health Partners, the management organisation of the Cambridge Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC). An AHSC is a partnership between one or more universities and healthcare providers focusing o... Read More about Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration.

Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: An empirical study of Consumer Attitudes (2012)
Journal Article

Since the rise of music on the internet the record industry has reported falling total sales revenues. This has occurred at a time when technology has radically increased choice, availability and the opportunity for the consumer to purchase music. To... Read More about Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: An empirical study of Consumer Attitudes.

An analysis of industrial practice on estimating the in-service costs for a product service system (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An extensive range of companies have moved from providing a tangible product to offering long-term integrated product service solutions. The revenue from such offerings, in particular at the in-service stage of a product service system, has become a... Read More about An analysis of industrial practice on estimating the in-service costs for a product service system.

Enterprise imaging (2011)
Book Chapter

This chapter develops a two dimensional “Enterprise Image” capable of assisting independent provider and client stakeholders take an holistic perspective of their roles in complex support enterprises. Though the case study describes a complex, throug... Read More about Enterprise imaging.

Complexity management (2011)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the nature of complexity that arises in high value contracts between large organisations. To develop a framework a detailed case study was undertaken to identify the factors that create complexity. The case studied was the avail... Read More about Complexity management.

A framework for development of models and analysis of the provision of through-life-costing for an engineering service (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this research is to provide an approach or solution to the challenge of modelling and analysing the provision of through-life-costing for an engineering service. The challenges of estimating the costs of engineering service are explained,... Read More about A framework for development of models and analysis of the provision of through-life-costing for an engineering service.

Towards the strategic outsourcing of core competencies in the automotive industry: Threat or opportunity? (2009)
Journal Article

Faced with shorter product life cycles and increased cost of capital, companies can no longer afford the capital outlay for new facilities, which may become underutilised as processes improve over the first few years of operation. Outsourcing the pro... Read More about Towards the strategic outsourcing of core competencies in the automotive industry: Threat or opportunity?.

Blue sky thinking (2007)
Journal Article

Building cars to customer order could provide the key to releasing billions of euros currently tied up in stock. Glenn Parry outlines a scheme to move the industry in this direction.

Joined up lean (2005)
Journal Article

Author's views on a a lean process methodology for core competence understanding are highlighted. UK companies have been employing lean principles to great effect. They have been supported and guided in their efforts by programmes such as the UK Lean... Read More about Joined up lean.

Low-co-ordination arsenic and antimony compounds: Synthesis and characterisation of 2-arsa- and 2-stiba-1,3-dionatolithium(I) complexes, [Li{OC(R)EC(R)O}L](E = As or Sb; R = But, C6H2Pri3-2,4,6 or C6H2But3-2,4,6; L = Et2O or MeOCH2CH2OMe) (1996)
Journal Article

Reactions of [Li{E(SiMe3)2}(dme)] (E = As or Sb, dme = MeOCH2CH2OMe), with a range of acid chlorides, RCOCl, afforded the novel 2-arsa-1,3-dionatolithium(I) complexes [Li{OC(R)AsC(R)O}L] (R = But, L = 1/2 dme or Et2O; R = C6H2Pri3-2,4,6, L = Et2O; R... Read More about Low-co-ordination arsenic and antimony compounds: Synthesis and characterisation of 2-arsa- and 2-stiba-1,3-dionatolithium(I) complexes, [Li{OC(R)EC(R)O}L](E = As or Sb; R = But, C6H2Pri3-2,4,6 or C6H2But3-2,4,6; L = Et2O or MeOCH2CH2OMe).